I have wanted to experiment with photographing the Milky Way for a few months now, and our trip to Sheldon Calvary Camp over Labor Day weekend is probably my last opportunity for the year.  When I was there in early August the moon was full, which polluted the night sky with light.

The first image is my weekly entry, and the remaining images are some of my favorites from the weekend.

Like the previous post I set up my camera each night taking many exposures so I could build the start trails.  On Saturday I pointed the camera south so that I could get a different look and also include a portion of the cottage.  While the camera was taking photos we were inside playing poker and drinking beers.

I have been wanting to photograph star trails for some time now.  However, living around Pittsburgh and the amount of light pollution we have is not conducive for this type of photograph.  When I was in Canada I took the opportunity to take hundreds of photographs so that I could build a few images.  The first evening there was some light cloud cover so that evening was a waste.  Saturday and Sunday were perfect and one of the resulting images is below.  This was taken from the deck of the cottage facing north.  Not so bad for my first try.  I probably needed to let the camera run for another 30 minutes but I was getting tired and called it a night.

When you are as far north as Parry Sound there is very little light pollution.  That makes for some awesome night skies.  This was taken from the end of the deck at the cottage.